[Debugger] Ray debugger interrupts with my normal flow of debugging

[kouroshHakha]

What happened + What you expected to happen

When i run the repro code on ray 2.39 I get the message 2024-11-13 12:11:46,137 INFO debugpy.py:92 -- Waiting for debugger to attach (see https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-observability/ray-distributed-debugger.html)...

but in 2.38 this wasn't the case, and I could interactively debug.

Please note that I have put the breakpoint on the driver and not inside the tasks / actors, so I don't really need distributed debugging here.

Versions / Dependencies

ray==2.39 doesn't work ray==2.38 works

Reproduction script

import ray

def main():
    ds = ray.data.from_items(
        [
            {
                "input": "David",
                "expected": "Hi David",
            },
        ]
    )
    breakpoint()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Issue Severity

High: It blocks me from completing my task.

[pcmoritz]

Thanks for reporting, you can restore the previous behavior by setting RAY_DEBUG=legacy

[pcmoritz]

I could see people who run a driver in an interactive shell wanting to use PDB directly in it. We could detect that and invoke PDB by default (if stdin is connected, which will be the case e.g. if you run in a shell). I'm not a huge fan of the inconsistency but good UX triumphs consistency sometime, what do you think @kouroshHakha ?

[kouroshHakha]

yeah I think that's a reasonable. And if there is a flag to control this behavior by selecting pdb vs. debugpy is a good compromise.